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THE BLACK DEATH

by Philip Ziegler

Published by Folio Society. 1st thus. 1997

Nearly fine condition. Dramatic black, red and gold pictorial cloth. Colour plates. Brown endpapers depicting the Spread of the Black Death in Europe. xiii and 280 pages including index.

Contained in a nearly fine slip-case. A few scuff marks along bottom edge.

Stock no. 2138238

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Contents

  • Preface
  • 1 Origins and Nature
  • 2 The State of Europe
  • 3 Italy
  • 4 France: The State of Medical Knowledge
  • 5 Germany: The Flagellants and the Persecution of the Jews
  • 6 The Rest of Continental Europe
  • 7 Arrival in England: The West Country
  • 8 Progress Across the South
  • 9 London: Hygiene and the Medieval City
  • 10 Sussex, Kent and East Anglia
  • 11 The Midlands and the North of England
  • 12 The Welsh Borders, Wales, Ireland and Scotland
  • 13 The Plague in a Medieval Village
  • 14 The Toll in Lives
  • 15 The Social and Economic Consequences
  • 16 Education, Agriculture and Architecture
  • 17 The Effects on the Church and Man's Mind
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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